I want to study the use of the self-assessment approach in the ESL classroom. I am using Pre-test, Post-test and intervention in my study. Are there any more tools that I can use to measure the effectiveness of this approach?
That's a great research topic! In addition to Pre-test, Post-test, and intervention, there are several other tools you can use to study the impact of self-assessment on improving learners' presentation skills in the ESL classroom:
🔧 Additional Tools & Methods:
Self-Assessment Checklists or Rubrics Provide students with a structured checklist or rubric to evaluate their own presentation skills (e.g., fluency, pronunciation, body language, content organization). Helps track learners’ self-perceived improvement over time.
Learner Reflection Journals Ask students to write weekly reflections on their presentation experiences, challenges, and progress. Qualitative data from these reflections can give insights into the effectiveness of self-assessment.
Peer Assessment Include peer feedback as part of the self-assessment cycle. Students often learn by evaluating others. Helps triangulate data and reduce self-assessment bias.
Teacher Observational Notes Use structured observation forms during presentations to document changes in student performance across the intervention.
Video Recording & Self-Review Record student presentations before and after the intervention. Allow students to review their own videos and self-assess based on a rubric. This provides strong visual and comparative evidence of progress.
Questionnaires or Surveys Use pre- and post-intervention surveys to collect students' attitudes, motivation, and confidence levels regarding presentation skills. You can adapt existing validated tools or create your own with Likert scales.
Focus Group Discussions or Interviews Conduct post-intervention interviews or small group discussions to explore learners’ experiences with self-assessment and perceived improvements.
📊 Tip: A mixed-methods approach combining quantitative (test scores, rubrics) and qualitative (interviews, reflections) tools will give you a richer, more reliable picture of the impact.
a control-group study, with an experimental group (=self-assessment) and a control group (=exact same teaching, but no self-assessment), which assigns learners to those groups at random, will allow you to examine the causal effect of self-assessment on the learners' skill development. The difference between the post-tests of those groups (assuming that the pre-tests were not different, which randomization should take care of) is the extra that self-assessment has contributed to the learning (if any).
Based on my experiences, my lecturers have given me some presentations in speaking class, during 2 period or semester, so we present, there are some our friend that will spy as and give as score, critic, comment and suggest based on the rubric of speaking that provided by lecture. After we present and QnA session,, the peer will give some opinions or comment related to our presentation. And the lecturer will give some feedback and comment, such as correcting pronunciation or grammar, and the content of speech etc..
From this, I guess peer assessment is available to apply..